Hoodlums Stab NSCDC Spokesman In Stomach

Suspected hoodlums have attacked the spokesman of the Niger State command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), DSC Ibrahim Rabiu Muti, while returning from work.

Narrating his ordeal to newsmen, Rabiu said he was attacked at about 8 p.m. on Friday, October 25, 2024 along the Federal Housing Estate in the Gbeganu area of Chanchaga Local Government Area (LGA) in Minna, the state capital.

He explained that nine criminals attacked him in a tricycle and stabbed him twice in the stomach.

According to Rabiu, two people pretending to be passengers had stopped the tricycle. However, immediately the tricycle stopped the hoodlums emerged from the bush and took over the tricycle.

He was stabbed with a knife, and his phone and other valuables were taken. While searching him, one of the hoodlums discovered his uniform trousers and alerted the others, saying, “He is a uniform man, he is a soldier,” and they abandoned him with injuries.

According to him, it was his uniform trousers that saved him, adding that the other passengers had already disembarked, leaving him with the tricycle rider.

He noted that the attackers were also armed with cutlasses, daggers, and sticks (Gora).
The officer said he is responding to treatment after discharge from the hospital.